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Themes of Contemporary Art : Visual Art After 1980
ISBN: 9780195367577 | 019536757X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/13/2009
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A compact and accessible introduction to recent contemporary art history, Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 , Second Edition, focuses on seven important themes that have recurred in art over the past few decades: identity, the body, time, place, language, science, andspirituality. The opening chapter provides a concise overview of the period, analyzing how five key changes (the rise of new media, a growing awareness of diversity, globalization, the influence of theory, and interactions with everyday visual culture) have resulted... MORE
| Contents | |
| Introduction | |
| Themes of Contemporary Art: What, Why, and How Format of the Book | |
| The Art World Expands | |
| Overview of History and Art History: 1980-2008 | |
| Old Media Thrive, New Media Make Waves | |
| The Art World Goes Global Theory Waxes and Wanes | |
| Art Meets Contemporary Culture Post Studio Art Practice | |
| Time | |
| Time and Art History Representing time | |
| Embodying time Changing Views of Time Changing Views of the Past | |
| Exhibits about Time Exploring the Structure of Time Fracturing time | |
| Real time Changing rhythm Exploring endlessness | |
| Revisiting the Past Recovering history | |
| Reshuffling the past Reframing the present Commemorating the Past | |
| Profile #1: Brian Tolle | |
| Profile #2: Cornelia Parker | |
| Place | |
| Places Have Meanings Places | |
| Have Value Exhibits about Place History's | |
| Influence (Most) places exist in space | |
| The work of art exists in a place Looking at Places | |
| Looking Out For Places Constructing (and Deconstructing) | |
| Artificial Places Placeless Spaces What's Public? | |
| What's Private? | |
| In-Between Places | |
| Profile #1: Janet Cardiff | |
| Profile #2: Unilever Series at Tate Modern | |
| Identity | |
| Identity in Art History Identity is Communal or Relational Social and cultural identities | |
| Identity politics | |
| Identity is Constructed Essentialism | |
| Difference Identity is Not Fixed | |
| Sexual Identity is Diverse Hybridity Reinventing Identities | |
| Profile #1: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith | |
| Profile #2: Shirin Neshat | |
| The Body | |
| Past Figurative Art A New Spin on the Body | |
| The body is a battleground | |
| The body is a sign People are bodies | |
| The Body Beautiful Different bodies | |
| Body parts Mortal Bodies Sexual Bodies | |
| The gaze Sexual pleasure and desire Sex and violence Post-Human Bodies | |
| Profile #1: Renee Cox | |
| Profile #2: Zhang Huan | |
| Language | |
| Words with Art: A History Art with Words | |
| A History Recent Theories of Language Reasons for Using Language Exhibitions and Publications | |
| Concerning Language in Art Language Makes Meaning Language Takes | |
| Form Transparency and translucency Spatiality and physicality | |
| Books made by artists Art made with books | |
| Wielding the Power of Language Confronting the Challenge of Translation | |
| Using Text in the Information Age | |
| Profile #1: Ken Aptekar | |
| Profile #2: Nina Katchadourian | |
| Science | |
| What is Science? | |
| The Scientific Impulse | |
| The Scientific Method Artists as Amateur Scientists | |
| Artists Adopt Scientific Methods and Materials | |
| Creole Technologies BioArt Science and Art: Intertwined Through History | |
| The Ideology of Science Is Science Running Amok? | |
| Activist Art Responds Recent Exhibits about science and art | |
| The Visual Culture of Science Scientific imaging and art Deconstructing the visual culture of science Scientific displays | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Jean Robertson is Professor of Art History and Craig McDaniel is Associate Dean and Professor of Fine Art, both at Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. They are coauthors of Painting as a Language: Materials, Technique, Form, Content (2000).
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